Fox Searchlight’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away with the Best Film prize and a leading five wins overall at the BAFTA Awards tonight at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
The annual EE British Academy Film Awards were a Searchlight affair, with Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water taking three awards including Best Director for del Toro. The strong showing makes both films strong candidates for the top prizes at the Oscars just two Sundays from now. Only they and Focus Features’ Darkest Hour (2) had more than one win.
Also cementing frontrunner status in the Actor and Actress races: Darkest Hour‘s Gary Oldman and Three Billboards‘ Frances McDormand, who have been leading the way all awards season. Both of those pics had nine noms each heading into the night, but it was Three Billboards that pulled away with wins for Sam Rockwell in Supporting, Martin McDonagh for Original Screenplay, and for Outstanding British Film.
Allison Janney (I, Tonya) won the Supporting Actress prize, and Get Out‘s Daniel Kaluuya won the Rising Star Award. James Ivory won the Adapted Screenplay prize for Call Me By Your Name.
It was particularly heavy year for British film, with Three Billboards co-financed by the UK’s Film4 and Darkest Hour and Paddington 2 scoring noms. Dunkirk, an Oscar Best Picture nominee, did not qualify in the Outstanding British Film category though it was directed by Christopher Nolan featured a largely Brit cast. It won once tonight, for Sound.
BEST FILM
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
DIRECTOR
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
The Shape of Water
LEADING ACTRESS
FRANCES McDORMAND
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
LEADING ACTOR
GARY OLDMAN
Darkest Hour
CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Roger Deakins
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Martin McDonagh
SOUND
DUNKIRK
Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ALLISON JANNEY
I, Tonya
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
I AM NOT A WITCH
Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau
SUPPORTING ACTOR
SAM ROCKWELL
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
James Ivory
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE HANDMAIDEN
Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim
BRITISH SHORT FILM
COWBOY DAVE
Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortense
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
POLES APART
Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low
DOCUMENTARY
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Raoul Peck
EDITING
BABY DRIVER
Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
ANIMATED FILM
COCO
Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
COSTUME DESIGN
PHANTOM THREAD
Mark Bridges
MAKE UP & HAIR
DARKEST HOUR
David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
ORIGINAL MUSIC
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Alexandre Desplat
EE RISING STAR AWARD
(Voted for by the public)
DANIEL KALUUYA
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Jon Wardle, National Film and Television School
